Monday, January 14, 2019

Old Man Trump by Woody Guthrie--Interesting Random Facts
At one point, Woody Guthrie lived in housing owned by Fred Trump--Donald Trump's father.  Woody Guthrie wrote a song called Old Man Trump about Fred Trump's racist housing policies.  He never recorded or published it.  The first verse reads:

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line

(I was reading "Bound for Glory" in a coffee shop--courtesy of Whisky Prajer--and the guy in the seat next to me struck up a conversation with me in which he told me all about Woody Guthrie's connection to Fred Trump.  I googled it, and found this New Yorker article here.)

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